Bottle-rinsing machine.



G. DDHEBTY. BOTTLE RINSING lMAIHINE.

Patented Mar. I8, |902.

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GEORGE DGIIERTY, OF ISOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-RINSING MACHINE.

SFECIFICATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,446, dated March 18, 1902.

Application filed July25, 1901.

provement in Bottle-Rinsing'Machines of which the following is a specification. Y

This invention has forits object to provide an improved rinsing-machine which will rinse a number of bottles-say a case of twentyfour bottles-at one operation and will enable the twenty-four bottles to be removed and placed in the case' at a secondand single operation. By this means the number of bottlesusually contained in a case can be rinsed, removed from the rinsing-machine, and placed in the case for filling in a very short time.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below and Yillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichd Figure lis a plan View of my improved contrivance with 'a few, bottles in position for rinsing. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on line 2, Fig. l, with the case reversed, and in position on the bottle-frame. Fig. 3 is a horizontal vertical sectionof the case andfralne removed from the rinsing-machine and reversed from the position indicated in Fig. 2, dotted lines showing the frame removed from the case. y

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. y v a represents a series of horizontal pipes, from which extend vertically the tubular spindles or rinsingpipes Z9, provided at their upper ends with suitable perforations b'. The pipes c are closed at one end and vat the other end are connected with the supply-pipe c. This arrangement is substantially as is now common in bottle-rinsing machines.

I prefer to provide twenty-four spindles b at equal distances apart and arranged to coincide with the arrangement of twenty-four bottles in an ordinary case. A represents a base or bottom of a rectangular frame provided with holes A, arranged to receive and register with the necks B of bottles B as they are packed in a case. This base A has two downwardly-extending supports C near-its opposite ends and a pair of horizontally-extendy ing cleats'D at its opposite ends, serving the purpose of handles and supporting-ledges.

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` Secured to its upper surface and extending vertically therefrom between the transverse rows of` holes A are cross-partitions E, and

extending longitudinally with the base and at right angles withthe cross-partitions and secured thereto by means of suitable recesses in the latter are longitudinal partitions F, located above the spaces between the longitu- The upper edges of these partitions are Hush with each other. The whole-that is, the parts-A, B, C, D, E, and F-eonstitute a frame, which I term the F bottle-frame.

H represents a case of suitable size to receive twodozen bottles in its rack H', which coincides with the partitions E F and is constructed as usual. The bottle-frame is of such a lsize and shape as to allow the case to extend over it (or to drop into the case) until the end edges of the case strike the handles or ledgesD.

In practice anumber of bottles-say twentyfour, which would be a caseful-are placed neck down in the holes A in the base A of the bottle-frame, and the said frame is then set by means of its supporting-feet C on the rinsing-machine a and over the rinsing-spindles b, as in Fig. 1, the bottle-frame being as After'the bottles have been Washed in the ordinary manner the Acase .H is reversedand placed over the bottle-frame, with its ends resting on the handles or ledges D, as shown in Fig. 2. Then the bottle-frame and case are lifted bodily and together off the rinsing apparatus by meansofl'the handles D, carrying with them the bottles` B,whose bodies are too large4 to pass through the openings A. Then the case is reversed, so as to bring the bottles right side up 011L the bottom thereof, as -in full lines in Fig. 3, and the bottle-frame lifted olf, as in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The bottles are then ready to be refilled. Thus it will be seen that a case of twenty-fourvbottles can have the bottle-frame applied to it, be reversed, and the bottles dropped all together over the rinsing-spindles and cleaned all together and the case of Vbottles lifted off the rinsing-machine and reversed, so thatpractically it takes but little more time to rinse two dozen bottles than to rinse a single bottle by the old method of placing bottles one IOO what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In combination, the rinsing-machine proper comprising the pipes a, c and rinsingspindles I); the bottle-frame comprising the base A provided with the holes A', the transverse partitions E and longitudinal partitions F, the feet C, and the lifting-handles orsupporting-ledges D; and the case H, H', all substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

2. In a rinsing-machine, the bottle-frame comprising`- the base A provided with the holes A', the transverse partitions E, andlongitudinal partitions F; the feet C for sup porting the frame on the rinsing-machine; the horizontal lifting-handles or supportingledges D secured to the opposite ends of the frame; and tho ease l-l, Il', all substantially as and for the purpose described.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE DOIIERTY. NVitnesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, A. N. BONNEY. 

